Best Friends, Of Course!

I have been going through old photos and laughing and crying all at the same time. So many wonderful memories with Chelsea. I found the Poem Chelsea wrote for me before she went to study abroad in London. She titled it..

Best Friends, Of Course!

There once were two girls

one with blonde hair,

and one with brown

And of course,

They were best friends.

There were not two other girls

In the history of the world,

That ever had as much fun

as they did.

Ever since the fifth grade, when

the new found friends couldn't

help but chat away during a social

studies lecture; they of course got caught.

Well, one of them did anyway.

And the other quickly went and repaired it,

because she knew even though they had only

barely met,

That this was the start of a beautiful friendship.

And well, the rest is history.

Because of course,

They became best friends.

They spent their summers as all little girls do.

Selling lemonade,

swimming,dancing in the backyard

(only to be embarrassed when the cool boys ride

their bikes through)

They loved it.

Because they were best friends

They started to grow up,

But this friendship did not fade

But grew up with the girls

and these two girls could not be separated.

Because of course,

They were best friends,

High School came,

with boys_

which means traumas,

But the girls stuck together,

through thick and thin

because no boy was strong enough

To hurt this friendship.

Because of course,

They were best friends.

As they girls grew,

one of them had to leave for college.

As hard as it was for them to separate,

because you know,

It really never had been done-

They weren't worried,

Because best friends never

Really leave each other.

These two girls,

over the course of many years-

laughed harder,

cried harder,

played longer,

talked longer,

ran harder,

worker harder,

and loved each other more

Than any two other girls

Ever had.

Because of course,

They are best friends.

And of course,

They always will be.

By, Chelsea Anne Hale

I love you and miss you. You were my better half. We did everything together and I think of you everyday. Thank you for your wonderful example to me and I feel so blessed to have shared much of my life with you!

Emily Bullen